Haters, women, the “Shevchenko complex” and his path to God? The first panoramic novel that recreates the inner world of Ivan Franko

Collage by Olena Zelenina.

“Hands and Tears. This is the first panoramic novel in which Stepan Protsiuk, perhaps the most insightful psychoanalyst in contemporary Ukrainian literature, poignantly recreates the inner world of Ivan Franko and his life-from his childhood to the last difficult years of his life, marred by illness and loneliness.